Shunsuke Managi is a Distinguished Professor of Technology and Policy and director of the Urban Institute at Kyushu University, Japan. He has been a director for Inclusive Wealth Report 2018 (IWR 2018) and IWR2023, an ISC working group member for the UN’ The Global Sustainable Development Report 2023, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a coordinating lead author UNESCO International Science and Evidence-based Education Assessment, lead author of Policy Briefs T20 for the Presidency of G20 in 2022 & 2023, an editor of “Economics of Disasters and Climate Change”, “Environmental Economics and Policy Studies”, and is the author of "Technology, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth: Improving the Environment for a Greener Future" and editor of "The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia". He is the co-chair of the Scientific Committee of the 2018 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. He was the recipient of a JSPS Prize and a council member of The Science Council of Japan. His main research interests are Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics, Productive Analysis, International Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics.